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Hughes, Ted ~ Tales From Ovid : Limited Edition Signed By The Author : With The Westminster Abbey ‘Order Of Service of Thanksgiving for the Life and Works of Ted Hughes OM, OBE 1930-1998, Poet Laureate’

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£850


Orwell, George ~ Animal Farm : Signed And Lined By The Printer / Publisher

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£1500


Forsyth, Frederick ~ The Day of the Jackal : Signed By The Author

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£450


Bawden, Edward : (Illus.) & Bliss, Douglas Percy : Cecilia Kilburn (Editors) ~ A Set Of Two Volumes Of ‘The Mandrake Series’ : ‘The Mandrake’ : ‘The Second Mandrake’

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£1250


Morris, Jan ~ A Machynlleth Triad : With The Publisher’s Prospectus / Order Form

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£375


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ENGLISH, Andy ~ Ten engravings cut for “Freshly Picked” by Jojo Tulloh. Signed by the engraver.

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£250


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THESIGER, Wilfred ~ Desert, Marsh and Mountain. The World of a Nomad. Signed by the author.

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£325


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[HEPWORTH, Barbara]; Alan BOWNESS [Ed.] ~ Barbara Hepworth 1960-69. Inscribed by Hepworth to Walter Strachan.

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£550


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MACKLEY, George ~ Wood Engraving. Inscribed by the author, with ALS.

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£550


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GREENE, Graham [Edward ARDIZZONE, Illus.] ~ The Little Horse Bus. Signed by the illustrator.

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£225


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GREENE, Graham; [Edward ARDIZZONE, Illus.] ~ The Little Train. Signed by the illustrator.

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£225


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FROST, Terry ~ Act & Image. Works on paper through six decades. Signed and doodled by the artist.

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£350


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MACKLEY, George ~ Wood Engraver [&] Confessions of a Woodpecker. Signed by the author.

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£600


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DU MAURIER, Daphne; [Michael FOREMAN, Illus.] ~ Classics of the Macabre. Signed by the illustrator.

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£150


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KEATS, John; [Aileen WARD, Ed.]; [David GENTLEMAN, Illus.] ~ The Poems of John Keats.

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£375


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ORWELL, George ~ The English People.

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£150


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HIGHSMITH, Patricia ~ Ripley Under Water. Signed by the author.

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£395


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MARTEL, Yann ~ Life of Pi. Signed by the author.

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£395


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LIVELY, Penelope ~ The Road to Lichfield. A Novel. Signed by the author.

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£275


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CARTER, Angela ~ Wise Children. Signed by the author.

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£250


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BOWLES, Paul; Marguerite McBey [Illus.] ~ Too Far from Home. Signed by the author.

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£175


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PIPER, John ~ Paintings and Water-Colours of Rome. 1st – 25th May 1962. Signed by the author.

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£150


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HIGHSMITH, Patricia ~ The Man Who Wrote Books in his Head and Other Stories. Signed by the author.

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£225


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BERGER, John [Jean MOHR, Photographer] ~ A Fortunate Man. The story of a country doctor.

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£195


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MCGAHERN, John ~ The Collected Stories. Signed, lined and inscribed by the author.

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£350


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ALDISS, Brian ~ Forgotten Life. Warmly inscribed by the author in the year of publication.

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£175


Conrad, Joseph ~ 2 Vols. : ’Some Reflexions On The Loss of the Titanic’ & ‘Some Aspects of the Admirable Inquiry’ [in] ‘The English Review’, : Vol XI, No. 2, May 1912, pp. 304-315 & Vol XI, No. 4, July 1912, pp. 581-595

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£395


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HILL, Susan [John LAWRENCE, Illus.]~ The Woman in Black. A Ghost Story. Signed by the illustrator.

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£295


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HILL, Susan [John LAWRENCE, Illus.]~ The Woman in Black. A Ghost Story. Signed by the author.

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£300


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HIGHSMITH, Patricia ~ Ripley’s Game.

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£225


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